Wednesday, April 23

Origins of human civilisation have been pushed back to 9500BC

None of the circles excavated (four out of an estimated 20) are more than 30metres across. T-shaped pillars like the rest, two five-metre stones tower atleast a metre above their peers. What makes them remarkable are their carvedreliefs of boars, foxes, lions, birds, snakes and scorpions, and their age.Dated at around 9,500BC, these stones are 5,500 years older than the firstcities of Mesopotamia, and 7,000 years older than Stonehenge.